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9 hrs. 38 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Nikolay Leykin

Narrator Gennady Postrigaylo

Description

This work by the famous Russian writer of the late 19th and early 20th century, Nikolay Alexandrovich Leykin, is an elegant twist on reality. Its heroes want everything to be just like in novels: sentimental gestures, and endless wealth bestowed on the worthy—but it all turns out as it does in real life.

Behind every action of a young man who arrives in a village to see his parents and suddenly acquires a enviable bride stands calculation. What lies behind the young man’s hired service to a restaurant staff as a matter of honor—respect for his “polish,” a sensible lifestyle, the bride’s love for him, or something else? This is what the reader will have to figure out by immersing themselves in an incredibly intense novel by a wonderful chronicler of everyday life and satirist.